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If there's one thing female journalists covering the trip of Vice President Mike Pence to Israel will remember it is the "special treatment" they received, first by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security detail and second, in their "unique" vantage point while covering Pence's visit to the Western Wall on Tuesday.

At Netanyahu's office on Monday morning, a visiting female journalist from Finland's state television was asked to remove her bra during an overly zealous and demeaning security check. When she refused, she was prevented from covering Pence's news conference with Netanyahu.

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